Human Cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is urgently called to help save the life of an emperor tamrin by the Chief Veterinarian of the Los Angeles Zoo. As she assists in the operation on the adorable and tiny primate with the big eyes, Barbara has a paradigm shifting experience that has a complete and transformative impact on her practice with human patients.

Now more fully aware of the common health issues between human and animals (which had differed apart over time due to the specializations in medical practice), Barbara begins a research challenge of asking a simple question for each medical concern: "Do animals get (fill in disease)?"

She quickly finds out that "Yes" is the most common answer. Animals do get breast cancer, fainting spells and melanoma. They also get obese and anorexic. They suffer from sexually transmitted diseases and Chlamydia is threatening to wipe out the Koala bears. She discovers that there is a strong link in behaviours between teenagers who cut themselves and birds who pull out their feathers and cats that over lick their fur until their skin is raw! Is it possible that therapeutic cures used in common practice by vets can help with human psychological problems?

Written as a team effort by Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and medical and academic writer Kathryn Bowers, ZOOBIQUITY is completely engaging and chock a block full of incredible and entertaining stories and research tidbits. Discovery Magazine hailed it as being the best book of the year and it is well worthy of that title. Based on extensive research, ZOOBIQUITY is very well and clearly written and had delightfully funny titles and humourous asides that will hold the attention of any reader.

The authors' selection of medical and behavioural topics is both insightful and illuminating as are the linkages between the research on the different and diverse species and the potential implications for human interventions. As a paperback, ZOOBIQUITY is text only without illustrations; however, the website www.zoobiquity.com is a wonderful resource to the book with lots of videos illustrating the stories and the animals as well as updates on conferences and work happening in this new field of ZOOBIQUITY. While this book is a great nonfiction book for any reader, professional and/or otherwise, it will be of particular interest to anyone working in education, health, science, nursing, medicine, and health research. It is definitely not to be missed!